Monthly Archives: May 2014

Last Friday night was our Kingdom School Graduation at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Colonie, NY. Our speaker was David Graham, a youth minister with Victory Church in Albany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Ew73YeNmQ We are so happy to have been able to watch our students grow in spiritual maturity, understanding, and experience. They are all interns with the youth ministry at Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, NY. Summer Camp will be very blessed this summer by their work with the youth!

Michael participated in the National Day of Prayer rally on May 1 in Catskill. Here’s a link to a short video. So important to pray for our country, and for other countries.

We were blessed with a visit from Pastor Dr. Tom Litteer and his beautiful wife, Marilyn. They will removing back to their native Iowa so we wanted to have some time to show them our part of New York before they left. We visited Thomas Cole House in Catskill and also Olana – Frederick Church’s mansion in Hudson.

I gave a talk at WAAM-Woodstock Artists Association Museum this month on Icons and contemporary art. It was well attended and I think people were excited to think about Icons alongside artists like Chagall, Matisse, etc. The exhibition of icons at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Woodstock was very well received too. I was invited to speak there twice, and we blessed the icons when the exhibition was over.

My Pope Francis is above!

“Blessed is the person who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.” Jeremiah17:7 My drawing of Lincoln:

“I bless you with a strong sense in your Spirit of standing on the solid rock of God’s faithfulness and timing. I bless you with unshakeable confidence that your Father is in charge of your circumstances. I bless you with allowing your Father to replace your burden with His faith, your disappointment with His hope, your doubts with His love. ” ( excerpts from Arthur Burk”s “Blessing Your Spirit” book.)

Please keep us in your prayers – we can feel the blessings everyday from your prayers and you are in ours,

The mission of The Fra Angelico Institute for Sacred Art is to deepen the prayer life of Western Rite Catholics by evangelizing the truth, goodness, and beauty of God through education and the prayerful creation of sacred art.